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1995 ALDS Gm4: Edgar Martinez salami breaks 6-6 tie
DerekJohnson
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Bring back steroids and the Kingdome and make baseball great again. Safeco is horrible. Always cold and the ball doesn't fly there at all.
Bring back the 'ol concrete bombshelter urinal, huh?
All I know is that the ball flew, it was warm, and it was loud as hell. Much better atmosphere. They could've fixed it up and given everyone separate stalls.
I hated going to the dome and left every game I ever saw there before it was over. The atmosphere was shit for your average, boring, low scoring weeknight game and that's all I ever saw.
TMobile is a great place to spend a day. I do get tired of seeing hard hit balls float and then die at the track though.
You kind of sum up my thoughts between the two. I REMEMBER the big games at the Kingdome for being crazy and loud. I remember the games at TMobile for being able to sit in the sun and have a beer while pretending to watch the game. Half of the crowds at TMobile aren't there for the game, first.
Agree. TMobile is like an amusement park of sorts. I was unlucky in that I lived in Seattle before they got good. I got to watch Griffey and Edgar but the team still wasn't good. The last game I went to there was in 94. I bet it was a riot to be there late season in 95.
One of those games against the Yankees in the ALDS, there was an amazing finish. I was at someone's apartment in Mill Creek. After the game I went to the nearby Albertson's. Strangers were hugging and high-fiving in the store. Everyone was walking around with smiles on their faces.
Edgar's grand slam above happened on the same day the Huskies lost to Notre Dame and left Derrick Mayes uncovered in the end zone and Damon Huard threw the pick 6 and our punter dropped a snap and got obliterated.
I was at every home playoff game in 95. I chose to solely attend the Ms that day but my dad doubled up. He rolled in around the 5th inning or whatever, pissed as all hell, bitching about Notre Dame, Lambo, and traffic. He got better though because Edgar. Good times.
There's never been a better playoff series. There were so many ridiculous things in that series I can't remember half of them. Edgar's slam off of Wetland was top of the list. Griffey hit five freaking homers and that has always been overshadowed by Edgar's heroics, which is cool.
The fact there was a debate on Edgar being a hall of famer was a fucking embarrassment
I still harbor doubts about whether Edgar belongs there, pal
magnificent hitter, but didn't have to prove himself in the field, bud
You can shake a tree and 100 guys will fall out that can field a ground ball and throw it to first, Chief. Edgar was serviceable at 3B, but even if he was horse shit with the glove, he was arguably the best RH hitter of his generation…
He couldn't cover ground, he couldn't steal, he couldn't throw, he was a liability in the field.
And I say this as someone who loved Edgar. But let's be real, bud.
That's why God invented first basemen.
An above-average infielder fields at a .970 clip…Edgar was .946 for his career. Brooks Robinson was .971…Edgar player over one-third of his career as a 3 bagger, not full-tim DH until 95. He was not a great defender, but capable. He was an "average field, plus-contact , limited (sneaky) power" guy in the minors, according to several evaluators I know that scouted him.
While not fast, I evaluated him as a solid base-runner even near the end of his career…great routes and turns, good jumps, no wasted movement. His running and range were definitely limited, but the bat was not. He is really tightly wound physically, and most of his injuries early on (non-HBP) were hamstring-centered. He had shown enough as a hitter by then, and the rest is history.
He made it to the league as a baseball player, and then became EDGAR, is all I'm trying to say, Podnah…